Taking Pay out of Payday
This new report provides a picture of who uses Payday loans,
why they use Payday loans, and offers examples of state and national policies
that curb predatory Payday lending. A
joint report maps the concentration of Payday lenders by legislative districts
for the state of California.
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Family Economic Self- Sufficiency Standard
The Self-Sufficiency Standard measures how much income a
family needs to make ends meet in California's 58 counties. According to this study, even
two full-time minimum wage jobs fail to cover a family's basic-needs budget. Due to the rising costs of basic items like food, housing, gas, health care, and child care, families need to nearly double their 2003 income to survive.
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Reversal of Fortune
A new report released by the Economic Policy Institute finds that African Americans have lost ground in the United States on all major economic indicators--income, wages, employment, and poverty. In fact, African Americans
were worse off in 2007 than they were 7 years back.
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